[password] beeskiff
[position] 26 31.050s 168 40.400e
[status] Yesterday's SSW wind at about 8 knots was just too little and too much from behind to make any progress. We spent the whole day and last night motoring with just 3rd reef main strapped in the middle for stability.
Apart from that, it was a beautiful and restful time. Sunny skies, starry night and nothing to do but lie around, read a book and occasionally scan the horizon.
This morning the wind is still light but has at least moved to a more Southerly direction giving us a bit of angle. We have full gennaker and main and making a lot of east at slow speeds. On the plus side we seem to have found some favorable currents. We have decided that trying to keep the speed up and long use of the motor in order to arrive Friday and avoid weekend checkin rates is just not worth it. It's about Au$ 200 extra for the weekend checkin and it costs us about $150 a day in diesel to use the motor. If we go really slowly we might even manage to arrive on Monday. Policy from now on is to only motor when sailing is uncomfortable.
[speed] 6
[heading] 75T
[weather] 8knts SSW 1m swell from the SW 10% cloud cover.

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